Kurt Schwitters’ attempts crystallized what Walter Benjamin
wanted to argue by the “philosophical re-evaluation of
surrealism”. That is “to capture an image of history in
the most subtly fixed, the garbage/trash of present
existence”. That’s why we, NetRadioHomerun collective
(Masaki Saito, Jun Oenoki, Hiroyuki Tanaka and me) used the sound
materials from the electronic ‘garbage dumps’ and
entitled our homage to Schwitters as ‘Cutting-up
“Waiting for Godot” in cyberspace’. Certainly,
William Burroughs’ and Beckett’s
‘automaton’ character Lucky followed something from
Schwitters as well as DJ’s “cut ‘n’
mix”. (Tetsuo Kogawa)